Propagation of gravity at light speed?
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Chinese_scientists_find_evidence_for_speed_of_gravity_999.html
Friday, December 28, 2012
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Massive planet in the GJ 86 system
Massive planet in the GJ 86 system
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5601
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5601
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Ultracool dwarfs in the galactic plane
Ultracool dwarfs in the galactic plane
http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4477
http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4477
Friday, December 21, 2012
End of an era: final WMAP results for cosmological parameters
End of an era: final WMAP results for cosmological parameters
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5225v1
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5225v1
Solar system formed in OB association
Solar system formed in OB association
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8255
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.8255
Harsh UV radiation at M dwarf exoplanet hosts
Harsh UV radiation at M dwarf exoplanet hosts
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4833
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4833
Thursday, December 20, 2012
HR 8799 planets with the Large Binocular Telescope
HR 8799 planets with the Large Binocular Telescope
http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2735
http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2735
Interferometric observations of an evolved massive star
Interferometric observations of an evolved massive star
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4621
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4621
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
A deep look at tau Ceti - planet signals buried in the noise
A deep look at tau Ceti - planet signals buried in the noise
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4277
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4277
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Sally Ride commemorated
Sally Ride commemorated
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/news/grail20121217.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/news/grail20121217.html
Two more planets in the habitable zone at Gliese 667C?
Two more planets in the habitable zone at Gliese 667C?
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4058
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.4058
Monday, December 17, 2012
Material behaviour in higher dimensions
Material behaviour in higher dimensions
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23013-multidimensional-black-holes-get-electric-when-flexed.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23013-multidimensional-black-holes-get-electric-when-flexed.html
Sunday, December 16, 2012
A galactic GRB in the historical past?
A galactic GRB in the historical past?
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2584
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2584
ESO confirms European ELT
ESO confirms European ELT
http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann12096/
http://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann12096/
Friday, December 14, 2012
Complex chemistry and planet formation
Complex chemistry and planet formation
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3297
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3297
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Characterising exo-Earths for JWST and beyond
Characterising exo-Earths for JWST and beyond
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2638
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2638
Hundred minute period binary survived common envelope phase
Hundred minute period binary survived common envelope phase
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2899
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.2899
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Smooth radar-dark river on Titan
Smooth radar-dark river on Titan
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cassini_spots_mini_Nile_River_on_Saturn_moon
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Cassini_spots_mini_Nile_River_on_Saturn_moon
Rare yellow hypergiants
Rare yellow hypergiants
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110928105716.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110928105716.htm
Monday, December 10, 2012
Sir Patrick Moore, 1923 - 2012
Sir Patrick Moore, 1923 - 2012
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/Sir-Patrick-Moore-1923-2012-182734681.html
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/Sir-Patrick-Moore-1923-2012-182734681.html
Institute for Interstellar Studies
Institute for Interstellar Studies
http://www.interstellarindex.com/2012/12/04/principium-issue-1-december-2012/
http://www.interstellarindex.com/2012/12/04/principium-issue-1-december-2012/
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Sir Patrick Moore, 1923 - 2012
Sir Patrick Moore, 1923 - 2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10525469
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10525469
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Accreting protostar with age less than 0.3 Myr
Accreting protostar with age less than 0.3 Myr
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0861
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0861
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Revised mass and age for Vega
Revised mass and age for Vega
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6055
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6055
Cosmological implications
Cosmological implications
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0548
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0548
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Atmospheric carbon-14 and the AD 774-775 event
Atmospheric carbon-14 and the AD 774-775 event
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0490
http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0490
Settlement as a space objective
Settlement as a space objective
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2196/1
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2196/1
Monday, December 3, 2012
Voyager 1 in 'magnetic highway' for charged particles
Voyager 1 in 'magnetic highway' for charged particles
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-381
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-381
Sunday, December 2, 2012
British SABRE single stage to orbit breakthrough
British SABRE single stage to orbit breakthrough
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/The_Biggest_Breakthrough_In_Propulsion_Since_The_Jet_Engine_999.html
http://www.space-travel.com/reports/The_Biggest_Breakthrough_In_Propulsion_Since_The_Jet_Engine_999.html
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Millimeter grains - implications for rocky planet formation?
Millimeter grains - implications for rocky planet formation?
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6743
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6743
Friday, November 30, 2012
Loop quantum gravity in the very early Universe
Loop quantum gravity in the very early Universe
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121129143452.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121129143452.htm
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Polar water ice, perhaps hydrocarbons, on Mercury
Polar water ice, perhaps hydrocarbons, on Mercury
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=233
http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/news_room/details.php?id=233
Jet Propulsion Lab. downplays Mars news
Jet Propulsion Lab. downplays Mars news
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-377
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-377
New massive, long period planets
New massive, long period planets
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6444
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.6444
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Another isolated exoplanet contender?
Another isolated exoplanet contender?
http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5519
http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.5519
New brown dwarf companions
New brown dwarf companions
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0818
http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0818
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Gravitational wave detection from pulsar timing
Gravitational wave detection from pulsar timing
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/507811/astrophysicists-on-the-verge-of-spotting-gravitational-waves/
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/507811/astrophysicists-on-the-verge-of-spotting-gravitational-waves/
Monday, November 26, 2012
Interacting galaxy simulator
Interacting galaxy simulator
http://www.universetoday.com/98640/a-virtual-galactic-smash-up/
http://www.universetoday.com/98640/a-virtual-galactic-smash-up/
Laboratory perturbations of spacetime?
Laboratory perturbations of spacetime?
http://io9.com/5963263/how-nasa-will-build-its-very-first-warp-drive
http://io9.com/5963263/how-nasa-will-build-its-very-first-warp-drive
Automated equivalent width measurement
Automated equivalent width measurement
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703696
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0703696
The eleventh Neptune-mass planet (2007)
The eleventh Neptune-mass planet (2007)
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702459
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702459
Two distinct young clusters towards Orion
Two distinct young clusters towards Orion
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3787
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3787
Friday, November 23, 2012
32 Jupiter mass brown dwarf companion in AB Dor moving group
32 Jupiter mass brown dwarf companion in AB Dor moving group
http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/753/2/142/
http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/753/2/142/
Eccentric brown dwarf passes close to host star
Eccentric brown dwarf passes close to host star
http://uanews.org/story/brown-dwarf-found-orbiting-young-sun-star
http://uanews.org/story/brown-dwarf-found-orbiting-young-sun-star
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Debris disk at planet host GJ581
Debris disk at planet host GJ581
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4898
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4898
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Expectation of news from Mars
Expectation of news from Mars
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165513016/big-news-from-mars-rover-scientists-mum-for-now
http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165513016/big-news-from-mars-rover-scientists-mum-for-now
Brown dwarf disks in Upper Sco association
Brown dwarf disks in Upper Sco association
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4484
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4484
The peculiar red supergiant VY CMa
The peculiar red supergiant VY CMa
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4156
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4156
Young 3 Myr brown dwarfs in cluster IC 348
Young 3 Myr brown dwarfs in cluster IC 348
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4029
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4029
Monday, November 19, 2012
Time reversal symmetry violation observed
Time reversal symmetry violation observed
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121119094627.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121119094627.htm
13 Jupiter mass companion to B9 dwarf
13 Jupiter mass companion to B9 dwarf
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3744
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3744
New discoveries from WISE
New discoveries from WISE
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3977
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3977
Sunday, November 18, 2012
The most massive stars known
The most massive stars known
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010MNRAS.408..731C
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010MNRAS.408..731C
An early (2003) L dwarf discovery
An early (2003) L dwarf discovery
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0307295
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0307295
Nature: alpha Centauri Bb redux
Nature: alpha Centauri Bb redux
http://www.nature.com/news/the-exoplanet-next-door-1.11605
http://www.nature.com/news/the-exoplanet-next-door-1.11605
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Free-floating planet or small brown dwarf?
Free-floating planet or small brown dwarf?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121114083411.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121114083411.htm
2008 imaging of the beta Pic planet
2008 imaging of the beta Pic planet
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081121081105.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081121081105.htm
Origin of the solar obliquity
Origin of the solar obliquity
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/11/did-a-lost-star-torque-earths-or.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/11/did-a-lost-star-torque-earths-or.html
Friday, November 16, 2012
New directions to find young exoplanets
New directions to find young exoplanets
http://www.lowell.edu/news/2012/11/lowell-astronomer-collaborators-point-the-way-for-exoplanet-search/
http://www.lowell.edu/news/2012/11/lowell-astronomer-collaborators-point-the-way-for-exoplanet-search/
Radio emission from active L dwarf
Radio emission from active L dwarf
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3479
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3479
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Young T7 dwarf not massive enough to burn deuterium
Young T7 dwarf not massive enough to burn deuterium
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0305
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0305
Protoplanetary disk of 10Myr old Sun-like star
Protoplanetary disk of 10Myr old Sun-like star
http://www.naoj.org/Pressrelease/2012/11/08/index.html
http://www.naoj.org/Pressrelease/2012/11/08/index.html
The massive 'Kuiper belt' of 49 Ceti
The massive 'Kuiper belt' of 49 Ceti
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121108181917.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121108181917.htm
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
On the Toba eruption 74000 years ago
On the Toba eruption 74000 years ago
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/5132/the-consequences-of-a-massive-volcanic-eruption
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/5132/the-consequences-of-a-massive-volcanic-eruption
The AD 774/5 event - a galactic gamma-ray burst?
The AD 774/5 event - a galactic gamma-ray burst?
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2584
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2584
Monday, November 12, 2012
Massive planets orbiting M giants
Massive planets orbiting M giants
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2051
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2051
Massive planet circling a K giant
Massive planet circling a K giant
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2054
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.2054
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Kepler-22b: 600 light years distant
Kepler-22b: 600 light years distant
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111205140525.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111205140525.htm
The discovery of Gliese 667Cc
The discovery of Gliese 667Cc
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120202151434.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120202151434.htm
Advanced software techniques in planet search
Advanced software techniques in planet search
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121108093812.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121108093812.htm
Tentative identification of a habitable zone super-Earth
Tentative identification of a habitable zone super-Earth
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1617
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1617
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
New young stars identified
New young stars identified
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1341
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1341
A third transiting planet from KELT
A third transiting planet from KELT
http://cpr-astrophep.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/12111031-joshua-pepper-et-al.html
http://cpr-astrophep.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/12111031-joshua-pepper-et-al.html
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
30 hour 'year' brown dwarf as dense as osmium
30 hour 'year' brown dwarf as dense as osmium
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120613145354.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120613145354.htm
Monday, November 5, 2012
Martian methane less than a few parts per billion
Martian methane less than a few parts per billion
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/5124/curiositys-methane-hunt-comes-up-empty
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/5124/curiositys-methane-hunt-comes-up-empty
Sunday, November 4, 2012
Spitzer's magma planet UCF-1.01
Spitzer's magma planet UCF-1.01
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120718114944.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120718114944.htm
Nine planets in HD10180 system?
Nine planets in HD10180 system?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120412105531.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120412105531.htm
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Fermi measures extragalactic background light
Fermi measures extragalactic background light
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121101164739.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121101164739.htm
HyperV pulsed plasma thruster funded
HyperV pulsed plasma thruster funded
http://news.discovery.com/space/kickstarter-plasma-jet-thruster-hyperv-research-121102.html
http://news.discovery.com/space/kickstarter-plasma-jet-thruster-hyperv-research-121102.html
Friday, November 2, 2012
Pair instability supernovae first postulated in 1980
Pair instability supernovae first postulated in 1980
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981PrPNP...6..305C
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1981PrPNP...6..305C
Most distant super-luminous supernova at z=3.9
Most distant super-luminous supernova at z=3.9
http://keckobservatory.org/news/aussie_team_on_keck_discovers_farthest_supernova_ever
http://keckobservatory.org/news/aussie_team_on_keck_discovers_farthest_supernova_ever
Asteroid belts, the snowline, and life
Asteroid belts, the snowline, and life
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0023
http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.0023
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
WFIRST: repurposing a 2.4 metre space telescope for astronomy
WFIRST: repurposing a 2.4 metre space telescope for astronomy
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7809
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7809
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Evolution of a captured brown dwarf in Praesepe
Evolution of a captured brown dwarf in Praesepe
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0446
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0446
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer marked for 2030 arrival
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer marked for 2030 arrival
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM9I4QWJ1H_index_0.html
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM9I4QWJ1H_index_0.html
Friday, October 26, 2012
Fomalhaut b: disk or collision?
Fomalhaut b: disk or collision?
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6745
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6745
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Fomalhaut planet (re)confirmed?
Fomalhaut planet (re)confirmed?
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6620
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6620
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
New buzz around Martian methane
New buzz around Martian methane
http://www.space.com/18188-mars-methane-curiosity-rover-clues.html
http://www.space.com/18188-mars-methane-curiosity-rover-clues.html
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Does a debris field await New Horizons at Pluto?
Does a debris field await New Horizons at Pluto?
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/5094/new-horizons-may-enter-a-firing-range-at-pluto
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/5094/new-horizons-may-enter-a-firing-range-at-pluto
Monday, October 22, 2012
Subsurface ocean for Ariel?
Subsurface ocean for Ariel?
http://astrowatchblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/could-moon-of-uranus-harbour.html
http://astrowatchblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/could-moon-of-uranus-harbour.html
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Quantum gravitational wave detector
Quantum gravitational wave detector
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121018185947.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121018185947.htm
ESA Cheops 2017 launch
ESA Cheops 2017 launch
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMXFG4S18H_index_0.html
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMXFG4S18H_index_0.html
NEAT for 0.05 microarcsecond astrometry
NEAT for 0.05 microarcsecond astrometry
http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4784
http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4784
Friday, October 19, 2012
New T dwarfs from VISTA
New T dwarfs from VISTA
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5148
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.5148
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
A "hot Earth" around Alpha Centauri B
A "hot Earth" around Alpha Centauri B
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1241/
http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1241/
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Low energy (< 0.5 GeV) cosmic rays revealed
Low energy (< 0.5 GeV) cosmic rays revealed
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121016131515.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121016131515.htm
Small telescopes for exoplanets in eclipsing binaries
Small telescopes for exoplanets in eclipsing binaries
http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6709
http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.6709
Monday, October 15, 2012
Citizen science circumbinary planet
Citizen science circumbinary planet
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3612
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.3612
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Quantum effects for interstellar chemistry?
Quantum effects for interstellar chemistry?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121011140812.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121011140812.htm
Friday, October 12, 2012
Matt Mountain of STScI on Hubble 3.0
Matt Mountain of STScI on Hubble 3.0
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/atlast-the-gargantuan-telescope-designed-to-find-life-on-other-planets/263409/
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/atlast-the-gargantuan-telescope-designed-to-find-life-on-other-planets/263409/
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Earth-sized exomoons with Tb>300K detectable
Earth-sized exomoons with Tb>300K detectable
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4418
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4418
Water in cold pre-stellar core Lynds 1544
Water in cold pre-stellar core Lynds 1544
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMVAO2S18H_index_0.html
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMVAO2S18H_index_0.html
Near-term space-based exoplanet searches
Near-term space-based exoplanet searches
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2167/1
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2167/1
Diverse compositions of exoplanets
Diverse compositions of exoplanets
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2720
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2720
Pulsars as navigational beacons
Pulsars as navigational beacons
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121009121611.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121009121611.htm
Light propagation in expanding spacetime
Light propagation in expanding spacetime
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121009161103.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121009161103.htm
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
From STScI: runs under IDL in Windows
From STScI: runs under IDL in Windows
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1850
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1850
Three sub-Jovian planets from SuperWASP
Three sub-Jovian planets from SuperWASP
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2329
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.2329
Monday, October 8, 2012
Deuterium/lithium impulse fusion
Deuterium/lithium impulse fusion
http://txchnologist.com/post/32463368168/channeling-star-trek-researchers-to-begin-fusion
http://txchnologist.com/post/32463368168/channeling-star-trek-researchers-to-begin-fusion
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Dusty plasma reactor with 1Msec specific impulse
Dusty plasma reactor with 1Msec specific impulse
http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/03/dusty-plasma-based-fission-fragment.html
http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/03/dusty-plasma-based-fission-fragment.html
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Brown dwarf captured by B star in Praesepe?
Brown dwarf captured by B star in Praesepe?
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0446
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0446
Friday, October 5, 2012
Luminous blue variable goes supernova
Luminous blue variable goes supernova
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22345-astrophile-supernova-impostor-explodes-for-real.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22345-astrophile-supernova-impostor-explodes-for-real.html
WFCAM transit survey finds first planet
WFCAM transit survey finds first planet
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1217
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1217
Thursday, October 4, 2012
New speckle techniques at Gemini
New speckle techniques at Gemini
http://www.gemini.edu/node/11893
http://www.gemini.edu/node/11893
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Formation outflows from very low mass stars
Formation outflows from very low mass stars
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0008
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0008
Young T7 object of planetary mass
Young T7 object of planetary mass
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0305
http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0305
Two tiny substellar binaries
Two tiny substellar binaries
http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.4044
http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.4044
Monday, October 1, 2012
Wide T8 companion to metal-poor star
Wide T8 companion to metal-poor star
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120510100052.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120510100052.htm
Saturday, September 29, 2012
2012 S1 (ISON) - Great Comet of 1680 or Kohoutek 1973?
2012 S1 (ISON) - Great Comet of 1680 or Kohoutek 1973?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09/120927-new-comet-2012-s1-ison-science-space-moon/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09/120927-new-comet-2012-s1-ison-science-space-moon/
Friday, September 28, 2012
Black holes and photon mass bounds
Black holes and photon mass bounds
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120925142605.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120925142605.htm
5 pc Y dwarf with high tangential velocity
5 pc Y dwarf with high tangential velocity
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.6123
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.6123
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Observing the event horizon
Observing the event horizon
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120927144526.htm#.UGS3pGliLeM.google_plusone_share
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120927144526.htm#.UGS3pGliLeM.google_plusone_share
Habitability of super-Earths
Habitability of super-Earths
http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/5053/-how-hot-are-super-earths
http://www.astrobio.net/exclusive/5053/-how-hot-are-super-earths
Theoretical approaches to FTL
Theoretical approaches to FTL
http://news.discovery.com/space/how-to-make-an-energy-efficient-warp-drive-120924.html
http://news.discovery.com/space/how-to-make-an-energy-efficient-warp-drive-120924.html
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Real time stellar merger produces "red nova"
Real time stellar merger produces "red nova"
http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.0163
http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.0163
Crescent Phobos in Martian daytime
Crescent Phobos in Martian daytime
http://www.universetoday.com/97589/a-crescent-moon-in-the-martian-sky/
http://www.universetoday.com/97589/a-crescent-moon-in-the-martian-sky/
Land microbes 2.75 Gyr ago
Land microbes 2.75 Gyr ago
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/5049/evidence-for-ancient-life-throughout-the-land
http://www.astrobio.net/pressrelease/5049/evidence-for-ancient-life-throughout-the-land
Comet spectacular promised?
Comet spectacular promised?
http://www.skymania.com/wp/2012/09/comet-ison-set-to-be-spectacular-in-2013.html/6978/
http://www.skymania.com/wp/2012/09/comet-ison-set-to-be-spectacular-in-2013.html/6978/
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Rotating ring of ions produces "temporal order"
Rotating ring of ions produces "temporal order"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120924144757.htm#.UGHYdPZSkIo.google_plusone_share
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120924144757.htm#.UGHYdPZSkIo.google_plusone_share
Alcubierre drive revisited
Alcubierre drive revisited
http://techland.time.com/2012/09/19/nasa-actually-working-on-faster-than-light-warp-drive/?xid=newsletter-weekly
http://techland.time.com/2012/09/19/nasa-actually-working-on-faster-than-light-warp-drive/?xid=newsletter-weekly
Missing galactic baryons found
Missing galactic baryons found
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/H-12-331.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/H-12-331.html
Monday, September 24, 2012
Cosmic ray detector to 1 EeV
Cosmic ray detector to 1 EeV
http://www.universetoday.com/97531/work-begins-on-the-worlds-largest-cosmic-ray-observatory/
http://www.universetoday.com/97531/work-begins-on-the-worlds-largest-cosmic-ray-observatory/
Record-breaking 1.2 hour binary
Record-breaking 1.2 hour binary
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4740
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4740
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Uwingu raises $79k, meets target
Uwingu raises $79k, meets target
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/180221
http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/180221
Friday, September 21, 2012
Synthetic biology for space infrastructure?
Synthetic biology for space infrastructure?
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=24724
http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=24724
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Quantum computing breakthrough
Quantum computing breakthrough
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120919135305.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120919135305.htm
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Planetary system debris?
Planetary system debris?
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3310
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3310
Dark Energy Camera first light
Dark Energy Camera first light
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120917104651.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120917104651.htm
Observing a pre-brown dwarf
Observing a pre-brown dwarf
http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1220
http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1220
Saturday, September 15, 2012
Planets in Praesepe cluster
Planets in Praesepe cluster
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-289&cid=release_2012-289
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-289&cid=release_2012-289
Friday, September 14, 2012
Mars in science fiction
Mars in science fiction
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2152/1#.UFMaC-ktn8g.google_plusone_share
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2152/1#.UFMaC-ktn8g.google_plusone_share
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Dark energy probed directly
Dark energy probed directly
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120912084759.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/09/120912084759.htm
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
New L dwarf makes quadruple system
New L dwarf makes quadruple system
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2331
http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2331
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Arab observation of Venus transit in 1032?
Arab observation of Venus transit in 1032?
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/The-Transit-of-Venus-Deaths-and-Dilemmas-in-History-169181336.html
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/The-Transit-of-Venus-Deaths-and-Dilemmas-in-History-169181336.html
Kepler overview with Geoff Marcy
Kepler overview with Geoff Marcy
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/343947/title/Planetary_Peekaboo
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/343947/title/Planetary_Peekaboo
Sunday, September 9, 2012
WISE brown dwarfs latest
WISE brown dwarfs latest
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-164
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-164
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Bok globule Barnard 68
Bok globule Barnard 68
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22248-astrophile-lucky-strike-turns-a-dark-cloud-into-a-star.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22248-astrophile-lucky-strike-turns-a-dark-cloud-into-a-star.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Very red L7 brown dwarf
Very red L7 brown dwarf
http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4012
http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4012
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Ice giants of the outer Solar system
Ice giants of the outer Solar system
http://www.skymania.com/wp/2012/09/neptune-and-uranus-ice-twins-that-fell-out.html/6923/
http://www.skymania.com/wp/2012/09/neptune-and-uranus-ice-twins-that-fell-out.html/6923/
Saturday, September 1, 2012
10-15% reflective deformable optics
10-15% reflective deformable optics
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528803.400-mirrors-take-root-in-pitchblack-nanotube-forest.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21528803.400-mirrors-take-root-in-pitchblack-nanotube-forest.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
Brown dwarfs locally rare?
Brown dwarfs locally rare?
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/news/wise20120608.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/news/wise20120608.html
Sixth habitable planet Gliese 163c
Sixth habitable planet Gliese 163c
http://io9.com/5939672/further-evidence-that-there-are-many-planets-for-humans-to-colonize
http://io9.com/5939672/further-evidence-that-there-are-many-planets-for-humans-to-colonize
Friday, August 31, 2012
Closed-loop habitats
Closed-loop habitats
http://io9.com/5939232/how-self+sustaining-space-habitats-could-save-humanity-from-extinction
http://io9.com/5939232/how-self+sustaining-space-habitats-could-save-humanity-from-extinction
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Steam star
Steam star
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5998
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5998
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Modelling the Penrose Universe
Modelling the Penrose Universe
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22222-turing-machine-gives-order-to-chaotic-penrose-universe.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22222-turing-machine-gives-order-to-chaotic-penrose-universe.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
Circumbinary planetary system
Circumbinary planetary system
http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/releases/2012/0829
http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/news/releases/2012/0829
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
White dwarf binary spin-down
White dwarf binary spin-down
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5051
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.5051
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Neil Armstrong RIP. Mars next?
Neil Armstrong RIP. Mars next?
http://mars-one.com/en/
http://mars-one.com/en/
Friday, August 24, 2012
Pan-STARRS and the Kuiper belt
Pan-STARRS and the Kuiper belt
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110113102156.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/01/110113102156.htm
More Kepler transits
More Kepler transits
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120823150403.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120823150403.htm
Betelgeuse simulation
Betelgeuse simulation
http://www.skymania.com/wp/2012/08/bubbling-betelgeuse-on-brink-of-destruction.html/6849/
http://www.skymania.com/wp/2012/08/bubbling-betelgeuse-on-brink-of-destruction.html/6849/
Origin of Uranian moons
Origin of Uranian moons
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4685
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.4685
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Supernovae and neutrinos
Supernovae and neutrinos
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120821094458.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120821094458.htm
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
R CrB stars form from white dwarf merger?
R CrB stars form from white dwarf merger?
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3907
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3907
Circumbinary planet
Circumbinary planet
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3712
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3712
Sunday, August 19, 2012
The paradigm shift
The paradigm shift
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/19/thomas-kuhn-structure-scientific-revolutions
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/aug/19/thomas-kuhn-structure-scientific-revolutions
Saturday, August 18, 2012
M7, M9+T5 system
M7, M9+T5 system
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0352
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0352
Friday, August 17, 2012
Galactic centre zoom by Stephane Guisard
Galactic centre zoom by Stephane Guisard
http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard/Pagim/GC.html
http://www.astrosurf.com/sguisard/Pagim/GC.html
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Quark-gluon plasma at 5 trillion K
Quark-gluon plasma at 5 trillion K
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22173-lhc-primordial-matter-is-hottest-stuff-ever-made.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22173-lhc-primordial-matter-is-hottest-stuff-ever-made.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
Z machine makes fleeting chunks of white dwarf matter in the lab
Z machine makes fleeting chunks of white dwarf matter in the lab
http://web5.cns.utexas.edu/news/2012/08/white-dwarfs-in-the-desert/#.UCooaIOTklk.google_plusone_share
http://web5.cns.utexas.edu/news/2012/08/white-dwarfs-in-the-desert/#.UCooaIOTklk.google_plusone_share
No van de Kamp planets around Barnard's star
No van de Kamp planets around Barnard's star
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2273
http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2273
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Legacy of Sir Bernard Lovell
Legacy of Sir Bernard Lovell
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9469003/Jodrell-Bank-Sir-Bernard-Lovells-labours-found.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9469003/Jodrell-Bank-Sir-Bernard-Lovells-labours-found.html
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Evolution of a quantum state
Evolution of a quantum state
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/aug/10/photon-shape-could-be-used-to-encode-quantum-information#.UCbOSJQGe8Y.google_plusone_share
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2012/aug/10/photon-shape-could-be-used-to-encode-quantum-information#.UCbOSJQGe8Y.google_plusone_share
Friday, August 10, 2012
150 solar mass plus R136 simulation Sheffield
150 solar mass plus R136 simulation Sheffield
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22161-astrophile-monster-stars-are-just-misunderstood.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22161-astrophile-monster-stars-are-just-misunderstood.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
Thursday, August 9, 2012
And the 1974 refutation
And the 1974 refutation
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1974ApJ...193..647W
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1974ApJ...193..647W
A forgotten 1943 claim for a brown dwarf third body in the 70 Ophiuchi system
A forgotten 1943 claim for a brown dwarf third body in the 70 Ophiuchi system
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1943ApJ....97...41R
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1943ApJ....97...41R
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Grand old man of British science dies at 98
Grand old man of British science dies at 98
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1585475_jodrell-bank-founder-sir-bernard-lovell-dies-aged-98
http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1585475_jodrell-bank-founder-sir-bernard-lovell-dies-aged-98
New well-defined T dwarf
New well-defined T dwarf
http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.6319
http://arxiv.org/abs/1109.6319
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